2024/043: Deep Wheel Orcadia — Harry Josephine Giles

2024/043: Deep Wheel Orcadia — Harry Josephine Giles

The maet o this transietion wis kent langsinsyne,
nae bother fer mosst o space, like jacks an limb extenders
an aa the bruck o bidan i'the varse, but sheu wis cursed
wi the wrang kinno faimly on the wrang kinno yird...[p. 90]

A verse novel written in the Orkney dialect, accompanied by an English 'translation' that's poetic in itself, Deep Wheel Orcadia won the Arthur C Clarke Award in 2022, and I have been starting and abandoning it ever since.

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